Gulf Women

The stories of fifty-five women, unique to the Gulf of Carpentaria region, are recorded in the ‘Gulf Women’ anthology, accompanied by their photos.Half the women live and work on the vast cattle stations of remote north-west Queen-sland as owners, managers or stock and station workers. The other authors live on country, work in businesses, tourism, education, health and aviation, or live and work on fishing boats out in the Gulf.The roots of ‘Gulf Women’ are in Gregory where the book began: a tiny township of about 40 people, 400 kilometres north from Mount Isa, and 120 kilometres south from Burketown on the Gulf. The heart of Gregory is its women.

The roots of ‘Gulf Women’ are in Gregory where the book began: a tiny township of about 40 people, 400 kilometres north from Mount Isa, and 120 kilometres south from Burketown on the Gulf. The heart of Gregory is its women.​Gulf women are self-sufficient, generous, and cope with almost anything that life and the environment throws at them; floods, drought, sickness, emergencies ... all the difficulties that come with running a cattle station and its staff, a fishing business, a family being raised and educated, or an enterprise far from anywhere.